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The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025
This is today's edition of The Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Introducing: our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025 The world is full of extraordinary young people brimming with ideas for how to crack tough problems. Every year, we recognize 35 such individuals from around the world—all of whom are under the age of 35. These scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs are working to help mitigate climate change, accelerate scientific progress, and alleviate human suffering from disease. Some are launching companies while others are hard at work in academic labs. They were selected from hundreds of nominees by expert judges and our newsroom staff. Get to know them all—including our 2025 Innovator of the Year—in these profiles. ...
The Download: a “dire wolf” revival, and safeguarding AI companions
This is today's edition of The Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Game of clones: Colossal’s new wolves are cute, but are they dire? For several years now, Texas-based company Colossal Biosciences has been in the news for its plans to re-create woolly mammoths someday. But now it’s making a bold new claim—that it has actually “de-extincted” an animal called the dire wolf. Dire wolves were large, big-jawed members of the canine family. More than 400 of their skulls have been recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits in California. Ultimately they were replaced by smaller relatives like the gray wolf. In its effort to re-create the animal, Colossal says, it extracted DNA information from dire wolf bones and used...
The Download: mysterious exosomes, and AI’s e-waste issue
Technology tamfitronics This is today's edition of The Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work. There’s a trendy new cure-all in town—you might have seen ads pop up on social media or read rave reviews in beauty magazines. Exosomes are being touted as a miraculous treatment for hair loss, aging skin, acne, eczema, pain conditions, long covid, and even neurological diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. That’s, of course, if you can afford the price tag—which can stretch to thousands of dollars. But there’s a big problem with these big promises: We don’t fully understand how exosomes work—or what they even really are. Read our story. ...
The Download: an intro to AI, and ChatGPT’s bias
Top Stories Tamfitronics Plus: Meta isn't treating political posts as a priority This is today's edition of The Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Intro to AI: a beginner’s guide to artificial intelligence from MIT Technology Review It feels as though AI is moving a million miles a minute. Every week, it seems, there are product launches, fresh features and other innovations, and new concerns over ethics and privacy. It’s a lot to keep up with. Maybe you wish someone would just take a step back and explain some of the basics. Look no further. Intro to AI is MIT Technology Review’s first newsletter that also serves as a mini-course. You’ll get one email a week for six weeks, and each edition...
